The 2015 Pulse of the Profession® in-depth report Capturing the Value of Project Management Through Organizational Agility, recently released by Project Management Institute (PMI), reveals how organizations can create a culture of agility that enables projects and programs to be completed …
Agile Principles and PMBOK® Guide In this article, principles of the Agile movement are reviewed with an emphasis on their relationship with the PMBOK® Guide. Very good mapping of Agile to PMBOK® Guide practices were suggested by Sliger (2006). The comparison of Agile with traditional project management was …
While organizations might find it easier to first address the processes and tools they will use when they’re delivering agile projects, it is individuals and their interactions that ultimately determine the level of enduring agile success an organization is able …
Frustrated by a cheap crystal ball? Nostradamus not returning your calls? Rethinking how you commit to project deliverables may bring the relief you seek. We expect the TV weather crew to accurately predict only 7 days ahead, but they rarely …
In software development, there is family of “iterative development” methodologies, including Agile, RAD, Lean, Extreme Programming, and others, all designed to adapt quickly to a changing business environment. They measure progress on the rapid and frequent delivery of working software. …
From the industrial age until now, the nature of the work being performed in modern societies has totally changed in nature. Unfortunately and far too pervasively, work’s estimators have not adapted. In this paper, we aim to make project teams …
A second and critical coping mechanism is to look at the relative sizes of the work pieces rather than the time required. To illustrate, in our classes we try the following experiment. we ask for a volunteer to guess the …
The modern concept of agility is based on the empirical process control model of “inspect and adapt.” In contrast, more defined, less creative, and less dynamic processes are suited to the “coordination and control” style appropriate for construction and manufacturing. …
Project planning is focused on answering the questions, what needs to be built, when it needs to be completed, how much will it cost, and who needs to be involved. As project managers, we also want to know any dependencies …
War rooms and Serendipity Most of us have had experience somewhere in student or professional lives with having to hit an important deadline. When fear of the deadline loomed, we often began circling the wagons with our collaborators to shorten …